Tapestry fabric



Oct. 31, 1933. M|LNES 1,932,981

TAPESTRY FABRIC Filed Oct. 13. 1931 FIG. I.

WITNESSES: I N V EN TOR:

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I 6a 5 6a ATTORNEYS.

Patented Oct. 31, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT: OFFICE TAPESTRY FABRIC Application October 13, 1931. Serial No. 568,536

1 Claim.

This invention relates to figured tapestry fabrics intended for use in the upholstery art; and it has more particular reference to tapestry fabrics wherein the ornamentation is emphasized 5 through offsetting or what is known as relief.

Heretofore, in tapestry fabrics of the sort specifically referred to, the raised ornamental figures were defined either by grouped pile tufts or loops upstanding from a ground weave; and,

as in the case with all pile fabrics, such tapestry fabrics were expensive to produce.

My invention is directed toward provision of a tapestry fabric of a less complicated texture which has all the characteristics, as regards gen eral appearance wearing qualities, of the usual types of tapestry fabrics with raised design figures as heretofore, with the added advantage that it lends itself to more rapid and economic manufacture on simpler looms than required for pile weaves.

With reference tothe drawing, Fig. I is a fragmentary View showing the face of my improved figured tapestry fabric.

Fig. II is a corresponding view showing the back of the fabric.

Fig. III shows a fragment of the fabric in lonin Fig. II the appearance of the back of the fabric is exactly the reverse of that of the face, the back having rib-like areas 5a of corresponding outline opposite the depressed areas 6 of the face, and depressed areas 6a opposite to and corresponding in outline to the raised areas 5 of theface.

In Figs. II, III and IV, the ground weave of the fabric is indicated at 7, and, as shown in Fig. III, said ground weave is formed by interlacing of warps 8, 8 with wefts 9. The raised ribbed areas 5 and 5a of the fabric are provided by relatively heavy, contiguously-placed wefts 10, which variantly pass from one face to the other of the ground weave 7 after the manner shown in Fig. IV, and which are overlaid with cover warps 11 bound in by a series of binder wefts 12. These binder wefts 12, it will be particularly noted, are of very fine gage so as to be concealed between the ribs of the areas 5 and 5a, and incorporated scribed.

defining an ornamentally figured face. As shown in the fabricby separate binder warps 13 which interlace with them, the latter being in turn interlaced with the wefts 9 of the ground weave 7.

As will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art of weaving, my improved fabric can be rapidly and economically produced on a comparatively simple inulti-shuttle loom equipped with ordinary jacquard mechanism to control the formation of the sheds and the manner of interlacing of the stuffer wefts with the other yarns employed, such that the said stuffer Wefts are variantly passed to opposite sides of the ground weave '7 in, accordance with the pattern predetermined upon. Figuredtapestry fabrics made in accordance with my invention are obviously more firm than either cut or loop pile fabrics, and, moreover, free against the pulling to which the last mentioned variety is particularly prone.

For the purposes of greater diversification however, ornamental figures may be produced in my fabric with pile in addition to the ribbed design figures made with the stuffed wefts as herein de- Accordingly, the appended claim is not to be construed as limited to the precise form of fabric structure illustrated in the drawing.

Having thus described my invention,-I claim: I As a new article of manufacture, figured tapestry fabric having, at opposite faces, raised areas of rib formation in alternation with flat depressed areas in'which latter a ground weave is exposed, ed areas being formed by relatively heavy, 'uously' placed wefts superposed upon and alternating between opposite sides of the ground weave and covered by cover warps bound in with veryrfine gage we s, the latter being concealed 

